Michelle Liu

1 day ago | nhpr.org | Michelle Liu |Julia Furukawa

Every other Tuesday, the team behind Civics 101 joins NHPR’s All Things Considered Host Julia Furukawa to talk about how our democratic institutions actually work. Since President Donald Trump took office, he’s tried to freeze federal funding for grants, foreign aid and more, but some of those actions have been challenged in court. Congress is supposed to dictate how the government spends money. So how is the president able to spend or freeze funds?

1 week ago | veritenews.org | Michelle Liu

When going to a movie in New Orleans before the early 1950s, Black families had to enter through the back door and sit in balconies, separated from white patrons. Then theaters, such as the Gem, opened for Black audiences. In 1951, “movies, music, singing, comedy and other performances (at the Gem) were attended by mostly African-American audiences,” the Preservation Resource Center states.

2 weeks ago | nhpr.org | Julia Furukawa |Michelle Liu

This is NHPR’s The Big Question. In this series, we ask you a question about life in New Hampshire, you submit an answer, and your voice may be featured on air or online. From coastal flooding to warmer, wetter winters, climate change is changing the landscape of life in New Hampshire. So, for April’s Big Question, we asked: What do you see as New Hampshire’s most pressing climate issue right now? Here’s what some of you shared.

2 weeks ago | nhpr.org | Julia Furukawa |Michelle Liu

Every other Tuesday, the team behind Civics 101 joins NHPR’s All Things Considered Host Julia Furukawa to talk about how our democratic institutions actually work. Behind every political campaign are the consultants who tell candidates what they should say and do. How do they actually run campaigns and how effective are they? Civics 101 host Nick Capodice joined Julia to talk about the nebulous world of political consultants. First off, Nick, who gets to be a political consultant?

3 weeks ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Michelle Liu |Avery Chambers |Braidy Chambers |Alberto Alemán

1 Introduction The study of Arabidopsis lyrata has enabled progress across various areas of research. Its close relationship with Arabidopsis thaliana, combined with the publication of its genome (Hu et al. 2011), has encouraged studies of molecular evolution, including mutational load (Willi et al. 2018), transcriptional changes (Wos and Willi 2018), and transposons (Bonchev and Willi 2018). Population-level research of A.